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accidental but evident relation existing between the two institutions. Froita a paper im Bray- 

 ley's Grapliic and Historical Illustrator (1834), we gather that Elizabeth College, Guernsey, was 

 originally called tlie "School of Queen Elizabeth," as having been founded under Letters Patent 

 from that sovereign in 1563,, to be a "Grammar-school in which the youth of the island (juven- 

 tus) may be better instructed in good learning and virtue." The temple or church of the sup- 

 pressed Order of Gray Friars <Friars minors or Cordeliers), with its immediate precincts, was 

 assigned for Its "use," together "with eighty quarters of wheat rent,'* accruing from lauds in 

 different parts of the Island, which had been given to tlie fi-iars for dispensations, masses, obitsj 

 &c. By the Statutes of 1563 the school was divided into six classes ; and books and exercises 

 were appointed respectively for each; the scholars to be admitted being required "to read 

 perfectlj'j and to recite an approved catechism of the Christian religion by heart." In all the 

 six classes the Latin and Greek languages vrere the primary objects of instruction ; but the 

 Statutes permitted the master, at his discretion, "to add something of liis own ,-"' and even "to 

 concede somctliiug for writing, singing, arithmetic, and a little play-." — For more than two cen- 

 .turies the school proved of little public utility. In 1799 there was one pupil on the establish- 

 ment. In 1816 there were no scholars. Prom that date to 1824 the number tluetuated from 15 

 to 29. In 1823, Sir John Colborne appointed a committee to investigate all the circumstances 

 connected with the school, and to ascertain the best mode of assuring its future permanent effi- 

 ciency and prosperity, without perverting the intention of the foundress; The end of all this 

 was a new building (figured in Brayley) at a cost of £14,754 2s. 3d. ; the foundation-stone being 

 laid by Sir John in 1826 On August the 20tli, 1829, the revived institution was publicly openedj 

 with one hundred and twenty pupils. "On that day," we are told, "the Bailiff and Jurats of 

 the Island, with General Ross, the Lieutenant4jovernor [Sir John Colborne was now in Canada^, 

 his staff, and the public authorities, headed by a procession consisting of the Principal, Vice- 

 Principal, and other masters and tutors of the school (together with the scholars), repaired to 

 St. Peter's Churchj where prayers were read by the Dean, Dr. Durand, and Te Dewn and other 

 anthems were sung. They then returned to the College, where, in the spacious Examination 

 Hall, a crowded assembly were addressed respectively by the Bailiff and President-director 

 [Daniel de Lisle Brock, Esq.], Colonel de Havilland, the Vice-president, and the Rev. G. Proc- 

 tor, B.D., the new Principal, on the antiquity, objects, apparent prospects, and future efficiency 

 of the institution." Under the new system the work of education was earned on by a Principal, 

 Viee-piincipal, a First and Second Classical Master, a Mathematical Master, a Master and 

 Assistant of the Lower Scliool, a Commercial Master, two French Masters and an Assistant, a 

 Master of Drawing and Surveying, besides extra Masters for the German, Italian, and Spanish 

 languages, and for Music, Dancing and Fencing. The course of instruction for the day scholars^ 

 and those on the foundation, included Divinity, History, Geography, Hebrew, Greek, I^atin^ 

 French, English, Mathematics, Arithmetic, and Writing, at a chai-ge in the Upper School of £3 

 j)er quarter ; and in tlie Lower or Preparatoiy School, of &\ per quarter ; for Drawing and Sur- 

 veying, 15s, per quarter, The terms for private scholars (including aU College dues and sub^ 

 £criptions for exhibitions and prizes of medals, &c,) varied from £60 ^ainually ^vith the Principal, 

 io £46 annually with the First Classical Master, The exhibitions in the revived institution 

 were, first, one of £80 per annum for four years, foumled by the Govcrpor of Guernsey in 1826, 

 |o the best Classical scholar, a native of the Bailiwick or son of a native ; secondly, four for 

 four years, of, at least, £20 per annum, founded by subscription ip 1826, to the best scholars, 

 severally, in Divinity, Classii-s, Mathematics, and Modern Lajiguagcs ; thirdly, ope for four 

 yeai-s, of £20 per annum, founded in 1827 by Admiral Sir James Sanrnarez, to the best Theolo- 

 gical and Classical seliolar ; fourthly, one of £20 per anpum, for four years, from 1830, to the 

 best Chissical scholar, given by Sir John Colborne in 1828. There were also two, from the 

 Lower to the Upper School, of £6 per annum, for one year or more, founded by the Directors 

 ^ 18-29,— The foregoing details will, as we have said, be of soiijc interest, especially to Cana- 

 4ians who have received from the institution founded by Sir J,ohn Colborne in Russell Square an 

 important part of their early training. " Whatever makes the past, the distant and the future 

 predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings," So moralized 

 Dr. Johnson amidst the ruins of lona. On this princiijle, the points of agreement and difference 

 between the educational type and antityije in this instance, will be acknowledged to be curi- 

 j?i;s,— Another link pf association betweeii Guernsey and Upper Canada exists in tlje no>v fanu^. 



